CVEs-PoC/2020/CVE-2020-12912.md

### [CVE-2020-12912](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12912)
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### Description

A potential vulnerability in the AMD extension to Linux "hwmon" service may allow an attacker to use the Linux-based Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface to show various side channel attacks. In line with industry partners, AMD has updated the RAPL interface to require privileged access.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/amd/amd_energy
- https://github.com/evdenis/cvehound